Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf] • Hacker News Board

Re: Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]

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Post by jakethedog » Sun, Sep 14, 2014, 10:44 PM UTC

mixologic wrote: post #56

This is a database of call detail records ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record ) and the numbers they have called, and numbers that have called them. It does not contain subscriber data (names, account information) - just metadata about calls. They use this database to find cycled phone numbers that have similar calling patterns. (Phone number 1 tends to make and receive calls from number 2, 4, 9 and 13.…

"DO NOT mention Hemisphere in any official reports or court documents"

It perverts the justice system when the police and prosecutors hide their investigation methods.

Re: Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]

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Post by x0x0 » Sun, Sep 14, 2014, 11:42 PM UTC

ProAm wrote: post #16

dicroce wrote: post #8

Our country is full of police departments that fund themselves through seizures of drug money, that they know about by using data our intelligence services collected on us. I wonder who's using the phone data to buy and sell stocks? Maybe that's what they'll get into once we legalize marijuana.

There are easier ways for the government to make money. There is a strong belief the CIA was selling drugs to citizens in the 80s to fund themselves [1] [1] http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9712/ch01p1.htm

A strong belief in the sense that it's a fact. Read about operation Dark Star [1]. The cia was complicit in Rick Ross selling several metric tons of cocaine (earning himself inflation adjusted $0.85B [2]). Every American should read Dark Star [3] to know what cia and republicans get up to when a central american country exercises a little too much democracy or our pet dictator is overthrown. That is, while the cia is not busy encouraging rape, torture, indiscriminate killings of civilians, etc.

   In his affidavit to the World Court, former contra Edgar Chamorro testified 
   that "The CIA did not discourage such tactics. To the contrary, the Agency 
   severely criticized me when I admitted to the press that the FDN had 
   regularly kidnapped and executed agrarian reform workers and civilians. We 
   were told that the only way to defeat the Sandinistas was to...kill, kidnap, 
   rob and torture..." [4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_traffic...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross

[3] http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras#Human_rights_violations

Re: Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]

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Post by b6 » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 2:48 AM UTC

NotAtWork wrote: post #31

kelvin0 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, he advocates a proactive approach to 'engage and inform other citizens' and start having people stop relying on a broken system, instead of taking responsibility for their actions and effectuating real change.

The problem is that his analysis is weak: the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice. Further, it's not the case that actions like those done by the NSA happened in a vacuum. The reality is that most of the country demanded, following one stinging terrorist attack that this must never happened again. The men and women of our military fulfilled th…

> the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice

I think this is untrue, or at least not the major factor. First-past-the-post voting seems to result inevitably in the situation the US finds itself in, with two main parties with no significant differences on most major issues, where voting for a third party candidate causes a spoiler effect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Re: Hemisphere Project Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy [pdf]

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Post by logicchains » Mon, Sep 15, 2014, 4:42 AM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #32

Let me commend them on the clarity of their writing. When the audiences is themselves it's brisk, vigorous, candid, and refreshingly to the point. Now contrast that with monstrosities like the Affordable Health Care Act, thousands of pages long, nearly impenetrable, and executed without any of the legislators involved actually reading or understanding it. Or the tax code, which is incapable of returning idempotent va…

They should rewrite the tax code in Haskell. Not only would that simplify it greatly, it'd also lead to a significant increase in the number of MonadFactoryFactories in Enterprise tax-handling code, which might ultimately motivate Oracle to add higher kinded polymorphism to Java. One can always dream...